A member of a tribal community of central India and Pakistan, mainly in the state of Chhattisgarh.

(geodynamics, tectonics) A proposed driving force for plate motion in plate tectonics that occurs at mid-ocean ridges as the result of the rigid lithosphere sliding down the hot, raised asthenosphe...

(historical) The old custom of stoning a wren to death on St Stephen's Day.

Obsolete form of Cochin China (“region”).